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A loop in time travel is a good analogy. It keeps repeating at two given points: start to end to start to end ad infinitum. In psychology, it's described by making the same mistake over and over again. In music, a loop it's playing something only once at different bars with a different tempo with a different technique each time. So understand exactly the opposite, and you've got the definitinon.
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You grew up with them a bit like Tarzan or Mogli did with chimpanzees? I'm Amish, so that means I can't use zippers... and electronic sequencers fall in the same sacrilegeous category. Unless it's made of wood and wood only, I may utilise it.
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I'd like a replicator or even better, a holodeck: imagine having photonic musicians at your disposal! But realisticaly, I'd like free-energy, and that those people behind the governement officials stop withholding that technology. And 4-hour work days. No copyright but the right to copy. Fame and fortune based on respect and gratitude instead of marketing and money... But for now, I'll also might buy a new motherboard for that new processor. I just got my tax return and I want to buy some goodies.
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Finnish commandos, MBROLA soldiers of fortune and "Arch types" special units. Who's withholding the info? I bet it's the devil who also possesses Caramilk's secret... or it might be Kentucky's Colonel Sanders who, after sending soldiers to the civil war to be killed is now sending fried chicken with his secret recipe to bring people to a slow death!
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I'm not sure, but I think that this might not be something profitable for me... hmm... I hate taking decisions! What should I do?
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I downloaded at lunch time, and I couldn't wait to get back from work to try it out. It's indeed a great tool! Many options. I think I'll buy the soft version and keep the money to upgrade my computer. More memory is the pressing point; I use big samples, 512MB doesn't seem to be enough! Then I'll get a new processor. Suggestions?
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Thanks Steve! This is exactly what I was looking for. I'll dowload the demo version and see how it works.
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Remember the Cher song with the effect on her voice in "Do you believe in life after love?" I hear a lot of new songs with this effect now... but it's a lot more subtle. Enables inexperienced singers to sing on pitch and on key. They also use a lot of this effect in shows to avoid embarrassing false notes. I hear Britney Spears uses it a lot. Anyway, do you know what is the gear used to do that? I could use it. Is there a VST version? I would surely buy the thing. I would appreciate info on this. Thanks very much!
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I'm in the post-post production phaze... Have you heard of fore-production? It's the part when you think how to produce it but aren't to it in actuality. There's also the meta-production faze, when you think how your production should sound like, when having actually started it. Juxta-production is when you produce another version of the same song. And there's "disproduction", when the sound of the product is inconsitent.
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Guess you're not interested in art and its place in music, then... :'(
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You can get more info at that site: http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?kontakt_us The advantage of that sampler is that it load ALL formats: Giga, EXS, Soundfont, Halion, Akai (maybe more format I don't know of). It has onboard effects, sound editor, and mapper (you can easily create your own multisample instrument), beat slicer, and lots more. It's very easy to use. I think it's well worth the price: 450 US$. It also comes with a bundle of instrument samples. It's the one I use, and I don't know what I would do without it! I've tried other soft samplers, but none beat its features and ease of use.
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That's an interesting question... I guess it's a question of determining the activated region(s) of the brain when one listens to music, and see if they correspond or are dependent on the same one(s) that process colour. But what I'd like to know is it only the eye that is colour blind, but a region of the brain as well, and one leads to another? I have no idea.
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You know, I had the strangest dream once, hearing a sound and seeing the colour it produces... Not the colour, quality or conotation of the instrument but the colour of the frequency itself. It was so convincing that I started documenting myself on the subject. I found out that such correspondance had already been attempted! And Fa really was green... And then this leads to another field that has been studied scientifically: the effect of colour on the mind. And what about how certain sounds re-organise matter in complex geometrical shapes, which also has been studied by science. Maybe we're getting closer to explaining the effect of music on people, objectively! I'm sure all of that could a musician attain specific effects with the listener more easily. "Fascinating" as a vulcan would say!
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I used to have an Korg M1, and everything coming out of it made me relate to a particular moment, song, etc. If I hear an M1 piano sound in a song, I have to concentrate to get past the sound and all that it reminds me. Likewise, If I hear a song with a voice or instrument that reminds of another song, then, my brain will tend to recall the orginal experience instead and bypass the new one. But that can be usefull to recreate a particular mood, using a collectively shared or cultural "sound", you can get to a desired result by reproducing it in a new creative context. It was a comment on your gear and not your songs: I like your songs. All of your songs have been on my hard-drive for a time now. My point was only that ideas have a colour. Having a broad pallette may paint a paysage in new and interesting ways and provide even new ideas, a new approach, a new technique! That's what I like a PC compared to MIDI-only gear: a wide pallette of sounds is readily available, and new ones are constantly being developed.
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I know 5.1 channel WMA already exists, but Mp3 format might have more impact, It could change how we record our music, if enough people use it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3550833.stm
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That's the painful part... playing it over and over again... and again. I spent the first ten years of my introduction to music interpreting pieces, scales, techniques. The most ferocious competition is with classicaly-trained musicians; many are so talented. But the grat thing about technology, is that you can tweak your performance. When I record the guitar, I can reach a note at the end of a piece without starting from the top. If I'm asked to perform it live (which I doubt), then I can have the pleasure of practicing it, and it makes sense with the feedback of an audience. Didier, you are a performer, you have a public, which explains your approach... however, why still an Atari 520ST odl synths? You don't purposefuly want to sound typically 80s?
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Didier -- don't you find your gear a little limiting? Doesn't it make your songs all sound a little bit alike? Everyone's different, but for me a sound is very important, so I need variety. I hear an instrument sound and it opens a world of musical ideas. If I use the same instrument or playing technique, I tend to stay within the same mind set, and what comes out of it is very predictable. Is it really that you don't find pleasure in having a PC and new gear or that you find security in your old equipment? How does this influence the music you make?
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You have two soundcards and two mixers! But you always use the same bass sound!!!
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Aaah! Now I see where those vintage 80s bass sounds and other in your songs come from! Atari... Brings back some memories! My first computer was an 8-bit Atari 800XL. Bought it when it came out. Perhaps BongStuff is right, building an instrument from sratch is rather labour-intensive! I understand using the original sounds of the ol' klunker-sampler for the character, but new sounds, especially piano instruments, is better left to new technology? Or what about a soundfont emulator software? It's what I use for soundfonts, far more convenient than hardware playback of this format, even if I have a Soundblaster card. There are VSTi versions for Cubase and DXi for Cakewalk or others.
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Wow, je ne savais pas que ce genre de convertisseur existait! Je connaissais deux "soundfont to..." mais pas l'inverse Autrement, il y a toujours le Vienna 2.3, gratuit, lequel permet d'accéder aux fichier wav et les sauvegarder. Pourquoi ne peux tu pas utiliser des instruments déjà assemblés? Si tu construit tes propres instruments, sous quel format le fais-tu? Halion, Gigasampler, EXS24, NKI, Akai, soundfont?
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The best is Native Instrument's Kontakt. Period.
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I don't understand what you could do with wav or aif files, unless you want to assemble the instrument yourself So I recommend sampler format files. There's the regretted soundfont site which included giga pianos amongst others, several multivelocity pianos up to 40MB, which isn't so bad for free stuff. Still available is the NS piano: http://www.natural-studio.co.uk/ns_piano.htm But you said that it doesn't sound good (I used it on my last piano tune, though it's 27.1 MB) (Steinway Model Also, you have (almost free (17$ US) this 80 MB piano (Steinway model C) http://www.trachtman.org/pianosounds/CD4.htm Take a look also at http://www.hammersound.net/cgi-bin/soundli...0&ListLength=15 Giga format: http://www.hum.aau.dk/~bovbjerg/piano.html (not too bad: 34 MB Steinway model C) http://www.trachtman.org/pianosounds/CD4.htm http://www.wstco.net/pianosounds/freesoundfont.htm
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The company won't offer you anything more than what you bought and what was part of the deal and the contract. Unless... you start making some noise and tarnish the name of the company, but that requires a lot of work. Going to court for problems like that is much hassle as well. The only reasonable compensation they can accord you is another computer while yours is getting fixed. And I wonder why this service wasn't granted to you in the first place. The 16... 32 hours of resolving has a pretty wide and debatable margin. And the 6 month setback cannot be established objectively with the cause. Let it go. If you can be re-imbursed, then it's probably the best thing you can do to ease your mind: they won't get the sale -- it's the best way to express your spite. It'll feel better after.
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I know that it should start with the individual, but how come theft is so widespread? Is it because of hackers? Or demand creates them? Does it only exist at the consumer level or at the industry and government level as well? Where does it start really? That way I could better see how it ends. Otherwise it's just wishful thinking and won't convince anyone to stop, no matter how punishing the law is.
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I wouldn't be making music if there wasn't an underground world cracking software. It gets me to try programs that I wouldn't otherwise. Then I buy the retail product when I use it sufficiently. The root of the issue, according to me, isn't about stealing the industries. It's about the system providing us the basic commodities stealing us. Shelter, food, security is hard to come by and life becomes a daily struggle. Modern civilization, in spite of its technological prowess, has put us somehow even more than before into the "survival" mode. In this lack of respect for basic needs for healthy human development, we become stealers ourselves, to feed the creative aspects of our lives (music, arts). If the former was addressed correctly, we would not steal the latter. This thought needs development, but I think it makes sense.
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